Lisa Jaeger previously worked for Bracewell & Patterson before spending four years in the George W. Bush administration EPA as a Deputy General Counsel and then Acting General Counsel. She returned to lobbying with Bracewell & Giuliani afterwards, where her clients are almost exclusively companies directly or indirectly tied to the coal or oil industries.

Jaeger’s political ties stem back to her position as a legislative assistant with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), and as associate director of the office of cabinet affairs in the George H. W. Bush White House. Lisa Jaeger also has teaching experience at Catholic University and Johns Hopkins University.

With the George W. Bush administration EPA, Lisa Jaeger worked to weaken environmental laws after it became clear Congress would not write new legislation. Jaeger claimed that the Bush administration was "a champion on the environment."

In January, 2009, Jaeger was quoted in Electric Utility Week*, claiming that coal ash regulation “has been positive,” and discouraged federal regulation of the waste. Elaborating, Jaeger said, “Ash management facilities have an excellent safety and environmental record and are subject to a schedule of routine inspections, maintenance and record-keeping.” This statement occurred just three weeks after the Tennesee Valley Authority Kingston fly ash impoundment failed, spilling over one billion gallons of toxic waste (100 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill) into the Emory River. Close to two years after the disaster, the area remains heavily polluted. (See EPA pictures and maps of the disaster).

Lisa Jaeger also represents both Valero and Tesoro, the Texas-based oil refinery companies that combined have spent over $5.5 million to support Proposition 23, which would suspend California’s global warming law. This would delay progress on greenhouse gas reductions and clean energy implementation until state unemployment stays below 5.5% for a full year, something that has only happened three times in the last 40 years.

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